Natalia Matveeva is an acclaimed entrepreneur and visionary with over 20 years of experience in the formation, development, and leadership of multimillion-dollar businesses across the globe.

As a strategic thinker with a sharp analytical edge, Natalia has leveraged her talents to revolutionize her companies and foresee markets and industries trends.

Her entrepreneurial journey began in 2002 when she founded Realore, a self-funded game development company, which started with a mere 5 employees.

Identifying the untapped potential in the fledgling casual games market, Natalia transformed Realore into an industry-leading entity with over 70 million customers. Realore stood as the premier game development and publishing company in Eastern Europe, boasting more than 80 well-known titles. The high quality and distinctive style of Realore's games have led to numerous top chart placements (on Apple Store, Google Play, Yahoo Games etc.).

Simon is the Global Chief Marketing Officer for GE Healthcare's Enterprise Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Portfolio. He is a marketing executive with a proven track record of achieving results and leading multidisciplinary teams.

Simon has over 18 years of international experience in strategy consulting, program management, marketing, and sales.

Over the last decade with GE HealthCare, Simon has held various leadership positions in marketing and sales in MedTech and Healthcare IT. He has successfully focused on building and commercializing solutions that bring together the entire GE Healthcare portfolio, including medical devices, healthcare IT, digital solutions, consulting, and services.
Before his time at GE HealthCare, Simon established himself as an expert in marketing, technology, strategy, and sales while working for the boutique management consulting firm Daemon Quest, now part of Deloitte.

Simon holds a Bachelor's degree in International Business Management from the University of Applied Science Osnabrück, a Master of Business Administration from IE Business School, and a Master's degree in Marketing and Communication from ESCP Europe.

Simon is a professor of digital healthcare management at IE Business School and University College London, the European Corporate Chair of HIMSS, and a mentor to digital health, health tech, and artificial intelligence start-ups. He lives with his family in Cologne, Germany.

Harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing, Rishi has dedicated his career to transforming complex challenges into actionable solutions.

Dale Bertrand is a marketer and founder of Fire&Spark, an SEO and content marketing agency.

He has two decades of experience in AI and marketing, drawing on his graduate work in artificial intelligence at Brown University's Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems. At Fire&Spark, Dale deployed AI technology to make operational improvements. Now, he consults with marketers and businesses to help them integrate AI into their strategies and develop new capabilities.

He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Brown University with a focus on AI and computer engineering.

Dale worked on a team of engineers who designed and built a 5,832-processor supercomputer for the NSA.

Dale was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurship Program and he speaks at marketing conferences such as SXSW, AI Summit West, Content Tech and the MIT Enterprise forum.

Luis is a seasoned IT executive and serial entrepreneur, with international leadership and management experience in high growth companies as CEO and board member, startup and scale-up mentor and business angel.

He is often described as an entrepreneurial, strategic thinker who is data-, process- and goal-oriented; who is curious and growth-focused, and with two passions: making things happen and helping people become the best version of themselves.

Luis is part of the Board of the Boston Chapter of the non-profit Entrepreneurs’ Organization, the largest of its kind in the world with 14.000+ members. He also served as Area Director for EMEA and was President of two chapters, EO Barcelona and EO Boston.

An avid traveler having visited over 50 countries and done business in many of them, he also collaborates with and mentors non-profits such as Fundació ESADE, Pallapupas, Bruins Foundation, the For Kids Sake Foundation and many others in quests like ending pediatric cancer or providing scholarships to talented students.

Over the last 25 years, Dave established four successful companies, including AOK Marketing and PromotionalProducts.com, where he serves as CEO and President, respectively. His expertise lies in transforming digital footprints and leveraging promotional items as effective marketing tools.

He also contributes to the Canadian Marketing Association and the Entrepreneurs' Organization. 

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He is active in the following ventures:

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AOK Marketing: A specialized performance marketing firm.

PromotionalProducts.com: Boosting brand visibility with promotional items. Current projects: Valleywood Capital: Creating stable ROI with innovative investments.

AlgorithmForLife.com: Offering life lessons and self-improvement advice. My areas of expertise include entrepreneurship and building online businesses. I actively collaborate with industry leaders for mutual growth.

As an innovator at the intersection of quantum computing and urban development, I am affiliated with MIT MediaLab and La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull to pioneer urban modeling and future mobility solutions for sustainability. My Data Science and AI role at the University of Barcelona reflects my dedication to advancing innovation.
I am at the forefront of pioneering humanized Agent-Based Modeling (h-ABM). I dedicate my expertise to crafting tools that transform cities and denizens into living laboratories. These laboratories are instrumental in decision-making processes, voting systems, and predicting behaviors and affection that closely mirror human dynamics.

With expertise in quantum computing, I tackle graph-based optimization for mobility and have contributed to hardware and software development for high-energy physics. As an entrepreneur, I co-founded ventures like Dictapp and Ninus and led initiatives like CORP, a platform democratizing access to robotics.

I am the Business Strategy Officer at LIGHTHOUSE-DIG and the CEO of WeShareCare, driving business growth and strategic innovation across sectors.

I like spending my spare time in social activities and enjoying different cultures. I believe in culture as a way to get to know the world, and I love to reflect that in myself.

Scott is a proven innovator with two engineering degrees, 11 patents, 15 video published video games to his credit.

He is the creator of GameTruck, the leader in the mobile video game party industry.

His passion is to fight loneliness by creating feelings of belonging through play.

Dr. Markus Wuebben is Co-Founder of the Customer Data & Prediction Platform CrossEngage  (exit to Spotler Group).

For Markus, CRM is more than just an acronym – it is his passion. Since more than 15 years, Dr. Markus Wübben has been working on the topics of Value-Based Customer Relationship Management, Customer Lifetime Value, Predictive CRM, First-Party-Data Management, and AI in Marketing.

After working for the customer loyalty program DeutschlandCard and the infamous company builders Rocket Internet, EPIC Companies, and Project-A where he helped dozens of startups get traction and scale, he co-founded his own SaaS startup CrossEngage in 2015. 

CrossEngage helps businesses increase the profitability and value of their customer base with predictive CRM.

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Markus is an experienced keynote speaker and is recognized as one of the top leaders in AI in Marketing. He has published his work in A+ Academic Journals like the Journal of Marketing. Besides others, he was awarded "Best International Publication" by the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB). 

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Markus is active in EO Berlin serving the Berlin Chapter Board as Marketing Chair (elect)

Krzysztof Kris Wojewodzic is a serial tech entrepreneur with two and a half successful exits and a researcher specializing in AI and education.

He was invited by The Economist to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos and at the Global Agenda in London. Currently, he serves as the CEO and Founder of Escola Inc., which is the 170th fastest-growing company in Europe, having experienced a 20-fold growth from 2019 to 2022.

Escola provides IT services and solutions to major clients such as Sony, Citibank, Danone, Porsche, L’Oréal, and over 20 universities.

Deloitte recognized Escola and Kris with the “Impact Star” award for their contributions in sharing knowledge.

Additionally, Kris is a Global Education Champion for the Entrepreneurs Organization and hosts the “My EO Education” podcast. He is also a father of two boys and an enthusiast of kitesurfing and cycling.

Christian's 'why' is driven by a deep passion for the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and rethinking how businesses can protect themselves most effectively. As a co-founder of CISOCON, he brings a wealth of hands-on expertise.

Recognized by Google among the top 10 most impactful contributors to their security from 2006 onward, he embodies a rare blend of technical mastery and strategic foresight. 
 

He has a unique perspective on the problem and solution space after having been involved in 100+ cybersecurity due-diligences and serving as CISO for tech companies including Zalando, TeamViewer, Zooplus, FINN, CrossEngage, LIQID, Alasco and others.

He first touched a computer keyboard at age ten. He self-studied BASIC and decided that his career would be with computers. In the early 90s, he graduated from the leading computer science university in France, Supelec. He realized quickly that there was a need for an interface between ideas and computers, people and computers, business and computers.
 

This is when he discovered that on top of his programming skills, he had translation skills. He could speak computer language and business language. He also discovered the power of critical thinking and asking the right questions. He climbed the corporate ladder of a few financial institutions for the next 12 years, from coder, to analyst, to consultant, to project manager, to manager. In the process, he was stationed in Hong Kong for a year in 1998 and caught the Asia bug.
 

When it came time for the next job, he decided to go back to Asia. In 2003, he created System in Motion as an offshore software services company in Shanghai. They quickly signed a few clients. As remote projects were difficult to manage, they built strong project management processes based on the concept that there is no such thing as “over-communication”.

In 2008, they stumbled upon their first client in China. They were looking for a reliable, local provider, which they could trust to deliver a stable and efficient system. This first successful project led to two recommendations, leading to four, etc. By 2012, their China business had grown to 50% of their total revenue. He reorganized the company around Business Units to empower key employees, creating the foundation for growth, based on trust, delegation, and coaching.
 

As of 2019, they are serving key clients in the APAC region, on mission-critical systems. They can provide full service on enterprise software, from design to care and maintenance. They always provide these services within an integrated view of their clients' Information Systems. They often provide architecture services on top of a few critical systems.

Marcel works as assistant executive director for the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics and as business director for the Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business. Besides working with these two research centres, Marcel is involved in several nationally and EU funded research projects. He also coaches students in writing their master thesis Business Information Management. Finally, Marcel is member of the executive board and treasurer in the department of Technology & Operations Management (TOM).

Marcel likes to initiate and develop innovative ideas and projects on the edge of science and practice, which combine people, technology, knowledge and innovation. Marcel can be characterized as analytical, ambitious, creative, social, loyal, team-player, result and market driven, multitasker, optimist, networker. Linking the academic world with the business world gives him a lot of energy.

In 2010 he finished his dissertation, titled "Business Agility and Information Technology in Service Organizations"?. The dissertation analyses how organizations can become more agile and how Information Technology can support organizational agility. A spin off "agility scorecard" is under development.

During the years Marcel has worked for a wide range of clients such as Microsoft, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Rabobank, NN, KPN, Delta Lloyd, TNT, Port of Rotterdam, Royal Floraholland, Vivat. He also has been involved in various nationally and EU funded research projects. His specialities include development of innovative (research and consulting) projects and programs, projectmanagement, consulting.

Marcel lives in Rotterdam, is married, and proud father of two sons. His spare time is spent on family and friends, sports, travel and photography.

Lucien Harriot, President of Mechanism Digital since 1996, has been producing award-winning visual effects, animation, and new media for films, television, and marketing in New York City.

As an accomplished creative and technical director, he leverages AI technologies and advanced workflows to optimize content production.

As an accomplished professional with a rich background in technology and innovation, Christoph havs dedicated his career to guiding clients along transformative digital journeys.

His tenure at Palantir and Accenture provided him with a comprehensive cross-sector perspective, enabling him to identify and leverage impactful data analytics use cases across diverse industries including retail, industrial sectors, legal tech, and real estate.

Innovation is the cornerstone of his professional ethos. He is fervently committed to harnessing the transformative power of data, empowering businesses to make forward-thinking decisions with confidence and precision.

As the founder of a pioneering legal tech startup, he revolutionized the domain of litigation funding by bringing it into the digital realm, demonstrating his ability to disrupt traditional industries with cutting-edge technology.

His expertise also extends to dramatically enhancing sales processes, where he successfully reduced query times from 3 months to a mere 3 minutes, thanks to advanced simulation tools capable of handling various configurations.

HIs experience in scaling e-commerce platforms, marketing organizations, and digital hubs stands as a testament to his ability to drive growth and efficiency in the digital age.

His academic pursuits at TU Munich & TU Lund further highlight his innovative spirit.

For his diploma thesis, he developed a groundbreaking simulator for a metaverse in the medical field. This project focused on real-time simulation of a surgeon's environment, showcasing his commitment to leveraging advanced technologies for real-world applications and contributing to the ever-evolving landscape of AI and digital innovation.

I am deeply passionate about improving people’s quality of life through technology, and how this technology can be transferred from academic applied research to industrial products. My main topics of interest are embodied social agents, emotion artificial intelligence, cloud computing platforms, healthtech, and edtech. After years in Academia in Spain, Netherlands, and the US, after years of doing research from Latin America to Asia and Oceania, after years of creating technology-based companies, and after having the experience to work in an international big corporation as NTT DATA, I decided to join the talented people at LIGHTHOUSE-DIG (Opportunity Builder) and empower Worldwide institutions to succeed to disrupt their technological-based business model through applied research with top companies, world-class B2B alliances, and, and cutting-edge tech startups, all at once in an unique collaborative model. Last but not least, I focus dedicated effort on CORP, a Collaborative Online Robotics Platform that aims to democratize worldwide the accessibility to robotic systems.

Eduard is an expert in lighting and the founder of Brink Light, a high-end lighting company in the Netherlands since 1999.

He completed his studies in Strategical Management at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

He launched the first website in design lighting in 2003 and has slowly shifted from B2C to B2B projects.

He is an investor in start-ups. Eduard is an Accelerator coach, Trifecta trainer and member of the Growth Team within EO.

Robert is a public speaker, covering diverse marketing topics and entrepreneurship. Robert has a keen interest in training medical professionals to organize their medical narratives, and he is enthusiastic about emerging technologies like artificial intelligence in healthcare and regenerative medicine.

Additionally, he holds the position of learning chair for EO Netherlands.